Year: 2010
Directors: Bryan Kramer
Writers: Bryan Kramer
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Review by: Hal MacDermot
Rating: 7 out of 10
Is the apocalypse in all your head? Bryan Kramer’s debut feature has exploding heads, which is excellent, but really it's more about one man’s journey into paranoia and the lonely night, as he struggles to understand what the deadly pandemic is all about. Forget Scanners and fast pace, think existentialist head trip on the meaning of plague, set to sparse eerie electronic chords, plus historical footage of gas masks and missiles. I would have liked more exploding heads, but perhaps that wasn’t the point, or budget.
The camera work in Presence is impressive, lots of hand-held work and close ups, but also some of best night shots of downtown La I’ve seen since Constantine (not talking story, but shots). the visual FX were few, but excellent. I’ve...
Directors: Bryan Kramer
Writers: Bryan Kramer
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Hal MacDermot
Rating: 7 out of 10
Is the apocalypse in all your head? Bryan Kramer’s debut feature has exploding heads, which is excellent, but really it's more about one man’s journey into paranoia and the lonely night, as he struggles to understand what the deadly pandemic is all about. Forget Scanners and fast pace, think existentialist head trip on the meaning of plague, set to sparse eerie electronic chords, plus historical footage of gas masks and missiles. I would have liked more exploding heads, but perhaps that wasn’t the point, or budget.
The camera work in Presence is impressive, lots of hand-held work and close ups, but also some of best night shots of downtown La I’ve seen since Constantine (not talking story, but shots). the visual FX were few, but excellent. I’ve...
- 9/13/2010
- QuietEarth.us
As creepy as it may sound, motion pictures about exploding heads always amuse me. Granted, there aren’t very many to choose from — “Scanners” and its obscure direct-to-video spin-off “Scanner Cop” are probably the cream of the crop — but I’m always in the mood to watch human cranium’s go kaboom in a cinematic setting. Perhaps that’s why I’m inexplicably drawn to Bryan Kramer’s post-apocalyptic horror outing “Presence”. Not only does it feature plenty of exploding heads, but it’s presented in a very strange and unusual fashion. If Gasper Noe and Shinya Tsukamoto joined forces, the end result might look something like this. A compliment, to be sure. As always, a handy plot synopsis: A man races through the city at night narrating his vision of the events that led to the present apocalypse and trying to escape from the disease he believes is the cause of it all.
- 8/26/2010
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
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